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Had enough of films about Marvel comics, misery and death, punctuated with sex and swearing? Can’t face Indiana Jones going through the motions in his eighties or Mission Impossible, Part 93?

Well, here is the charming film for you. Hello, Bookstore is the swearwordfree, heart-warming story of The Bookstore, a bookshop in Lenox, Massachusetts.

For 47 years, it’s been run by Matt Tannenbaum, now.

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